Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

The letter did say the following in the covid cert section:

"Government give consideration to the extension of its application to settings where there is 

high risk of transmission, through close contact or other activities, not yet covered by the 

current regime."

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying?

The **** was that last paragraph?

NIAC approves vaccines, not the government.

And who appoints people to NIAC and pays for it?

That doesn't matter; they are independent and can't be pressured into decisions for political expedience.

It wasn't long after he came back when there was talk of more lockdown. It was absolutely driven by him. A pandemic is arguably the biggest challenge for someone in his role and he, in the middle of it, for perfectly understandable and acceptable reasons stepped away, but it was the coming back to the top job that did it for me; if it was such an emergency, he should have been replaced as apparently a pandemic is an emergency so surely we cannot afford to lose our CMO for a couple months.

I won't even comment on his two week holiday right before NPHET were supposedly due to be disbanded in October.

24 months? Link?

Florida has 4 times the population of Ireland and over 10 times the deaths.

If only we were Florida, we would now have 15,211 deaths rather than the present 5,866.

We would have the 4th highest death rate in Europe with only Bulgaria, Hungary and Chechia being higher.

Yes I emigrated from Albania.

Florida has a far older population, its basically a massive retirement home. Contrast that to Ireland one of the youngest countries in the EU.

So are we saying the government can't ask they to review something a bit earlier like ALL the other countries are doing?

No wonder we are useless

It's the metric most countries are using and usually prefaced or appended by "of adults" i.e. those over 18, so it's not secretive (witness the loons on the other threads banging on about "92% vaccinated and it doesn't work"). But I don't really care what's used, it changes some calculations, but numbers are numbers, other people ascribe emotion to them, in this case the poster was screaming to use age as a metric in one area but screaming not to use it in another as if 3:1 was a good number and 12:1 was a bad number for the unvaxxed, they're both bad.

From a restrictions perspective, people can get vaccinated, people can't be younger, is that fair on the willfully unvaccinated younger group? Probably not, but life isn't fair, most countries are increasing these restrictions based on health numbers and data (are they all wrong or just Ireland wrong?).

UK is in an OK place with 98% antibodies present but are under pressure too. We should have stayed much more open then we did and kept hospitals "at capacity" keeping as much as possible open, construction lockdown was ridiculous, pushing out opening from August to October was ridiculous, we can't go back in time and change that so can only deal with the way things are now, which is some restrictions and hospitals already at capacity, if the hospitalisations don't drop, it's either restrict a few, restrict many or stop treating some people, they're not great choices to have but decisions have to be made.

It is laughable how many politicians, health care workers, journalists etc. use Twitter and think they are conversing on some sort of platform that has a legitimacy which may not be present on the likes of Facebook or Tik Tok.

As a rule of thumb, if someone professional is giving an opinion on twitter it should not be taken as a professional tweet, take it with a pinch of salt. In fact, take the view that opinions are like ar$eholes, especially when posted online!

Unfortunately, as with all social media platforms, there are two big problems; (1) conversation happens in a bubble due to the operation of algorithms; and (2) people cannot separate real life from online life. The net effect; covid restrictions have been a hysterical overreaction post-lockdown I and there has been a big group-think and herd mentality facilitated by a few social media platforms which unfortunately has guided real world policy.

Too many adults use Facebook and Twitter etc. but should just know better, especially when it comes to professional opinions.